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TIL Bubble wrap was actually invented for wallpaper art rather than a packaging material. The idea changed when the inventors failed to make one.

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WkAgB TIL than Hispanics paradoxically live longer lives than non-Hispanic White Americans despite having lower average income and education. Researchers have not been able to find out exactly why but they believe it has to do with either lower smoking rates, stronger family connections, or healthier food
N70Y8 TIL the iconic music from “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” was made in the 1960s by German composer Heinz Kiessling, who died in 2003, two years before the show premiered.
x6BEw TIL the Pentagon used to route all data wires through one wall so 9/11 could've been so much worse
ADd5n TIL Mithridates VI of Pontus daily ingested small doses of poison because he feared being poisoned during his reign. After defeat by Pompey in the third Mithridatic war, he tried to commit suicide by using poison. His attempt failed because he had developed immunity.
VMmyD TIL that since the turn of the century, cockroach populations have plummeted in some former Soviet countries for unknown reasons, with at least one species being proposed for inclusion in lists of threatened fauna